Nadia
Encyclopedia
Nadia is a female given name of Slavic
/ Eastern European origin. See Nadia (given name).
Nadia may refer to:
Slavic peoples
The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...
/ Eastern European origin. See Nadia (given name).
Nadia may refer to:
In sports
- Nadia ComăneciNadia ComaneciNadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer...
(born 1961), Romanian Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast - Nadia CortassaNadia CortassaNadia Cortassa is an athlete from Italy. She competes in triathlon.Cortassa competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She took fifth place with a total time of 2:05:45.35.-References:*...
(born 1978), Italian triathlete - Nadia DandoloNadia DandoloNadia Dandolo is a retired Italian long-distance runner. She won the silver medal in the 3000 metres at the 1991 Mediterranean Games. She competed at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships on six occasions, finishing in fifth place at the 1990 and 1992 editions...
(born 1962), Italian long-distance runner - Nadia DavyNadia DavyNadia Davy is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.-References:...
(born 1980), Olympic bronze medal-winning Jamaican sprinter - Nadia PetrovaNadia PetrovaNadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player.Overall, she has won 28 WTA Titles, ten in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005...
(born 1982), professional tennis player from Russia - Nadia StygerNadia StygerNadia Styger is a Swiss alpine skier.Styger won a total of 4 Alpine Skiing World Cup races. She was several times Swiss champion in Downhill and Super-G.-World Cup victories:-External links:* * on NamePedia...
(born 1978), Swiss alpine skier
In film and television
- Nadia AlmadaNadia AlmadaNadia Conceicao Almada is a Madeiran-born UK reality television star, best known for being the first transsexual winner of Big Brother in series 5 in 2004.-Big Brother:...
(born 1977), Portuguese reality television star, winner of Big Brother UK - Nadia BjorlinNadia BjorlinNadia Alexandra Bjorlin born August 2, 1980, is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Björlin was born in Newport, Rhode Island but lived in Sweden until the age of 7. Her father was the Swedish composer and conductor Ulf Björlin .. Her mother, Fary, is a Persian interior decorator from...
(born 1980), American actress - Nadia Di CelloNadia Di CelloNadia Mariel Di Cello is an Argentine actress. She is perhaps the best known of her role in television series Chiquititas, Rebelde Way and Rincón de Luz.- Career :...
(born 1989), Argentine actress - Nadia ChambersNadia ChambersNadia Chambers is a Welsh actress, born January 13, 1968. She is the youngest of four children, with an older brother, Karl, and two older sisters, Kim and Tania...
(born 1968), Welsh actress - Nadia ChanNadia ChanNnadia Chan Chung Ling is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She started show business in 1985 at the age of 14 winning a Sally Yeh impersonation contest hosted by TVB, within the show Enjoy Yourself Tonight . Thereafter she hosted many children's show and sang many children's songs which gained her...
(born 1971), Hong Kong actress and singer - Nadia FarèsNadia FarèsNadia Farès is a French actress. She rose to international fame in the successful police thriller Les Rivières pourpres . She also appeared as Jade Agent Kinler in the 2007 action/thriller, War and as Pia in 2007 horror film Storm Warning.-External links:...
(born 1973), French actress - Nadia KhanNadia KhanNadia Khan is a Pakistani television presenter, actress and producer.-Career:Khan made her television debut with NTM in 1996. She then hosted a show called Daak Time with Uncle Sargam which was popular among children PTV. She made a comeback to acting in the year 2005 with an Eid Special Show in...
(born 1979), Pakistani TV actress and producer - Nadia LitzNadia Litz-Biography:She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A former child actor, she has described herself as somewhat ambitious. She is of Russian, Polish and British descent, and the press has noted her small physical stature...
(born 1976), Canadian actress - Nadia LópezNadia LópezNadia Yvonne López Ayuso , is a Grammy Award nominated Mexican singer and reality television star.-Early life:...
(born 1983), Mexican singer and reality television star - Nadia LutfiNadia LutfiNadia Lutfi , the daughter of an Egyptian father who was an accountant and a Polish mother, was one of the most popular actresses during the final phase of Egyptian cinema's "Golden Age".-Life and career:...
(born 1938), Egyptian actress - Nadia SawalhaNadia SawalhaNadia Sawalha is an English actress and television presenter.Sawalha is perhaps best known for her role as Annie Palmer in the BBC soap opera EastEnders during the 1990s, although most of her television work is now as a presenter rather than an actress...
(born 1964), English actress and television presenter - Nadia TassNadia TassNadia Tass is a film director, producer and actress, originally from Macedonia, northern Greece, who moved to Australia in the 1960s. She began her career as an actress appearing in the television series Prisoner. Ms...
(born 1956), Australian film director and producer - Nadia TurnerNadia TurnerNadia Turner Nadia Turner Nadia Turner (born January 11, 1977 is an American singer, songwriter, actress and radio/television personality, best known as the 8th place finalist on the fourth season of American Idol.-Before Idol:...
(born 1977), contestant on American Idol season 4 - Fearless NadiaFearless NadiaFearless Nadia was an Indian film actress and stuntwoman, who is most remembered the masked, cloaked adventuress in Hunterwali made in 1935 , which was one of the earliest female lead Indian films .-Early life:Fearless Nadia was born as Mary Ann Evans on 8 January 1908 in Perth, Western Australia...
(1908–1996), Indian actress and stuntwoman
Other
- Princess Nadia of Leiningen (born 1991), 129th in line to the British throne
- Nadia Abu El HajNadia Abu El HajNadia Abu El Haj is an American academic with a PhD in Anthropology from Duke University. She is an associate professor of anthropology at Barnard College....
, assistant professor at Barnard College - Nadia BakhurjiNadia BakhurjiNadia Bakhurji made international headlines in 2005 by announcing her candidacy for a seat on the Board of the Council of Saudi Engineers.Bakhurji, an interior architect who lives in the capital city Riyadh, found a loophole in the candidate stipulations...
, Saudi interior designer who announced her candidacy in the 2005 Saudi elections - Nadia BoulangerNadia BoulangerNadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
(1887-1979), French composer, conductor and teacher - Nadia McCaffreyNadia McCaffreyNadia McCaffrey was born April 17, 1945 in Paris, France and married an American, Bob McCaffrey; then she immigrated to the United States. She is the founder of Angel Staff, a group of volunteers who bring a caring presence to terminally ill patients and their families. Her son and only child,...
, founder of Angel Staff and anti-Iraq War activist - Nadia YassineNadia YassineNadia Yassine is the head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane...
(born 1958), founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane - Nadia YounesNadia YounesNadia Younes was an Egyptian national who spent her entire career, for over 33 years, in the United Nations and the World Health Organization, rising to high-level posts in a variety of areas....
(1946–2003), Egyptian national who worked for the UN and the WHO, victim of the Canal Hotel bombing
Fictional characters
- Nadia, in the computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- Nadia YassirNadia YassirNadia Yassir is a fictional character from the TV series 24 played by Marisol Nichols. Introduced in Season 6, she works for the Counter Terrorist Unit at Los Angeles, a fictional domestic branch of the Central Intelligence Agency...
, from the TV series 24 - Nadia Jazeem, on the TV series LostLost (TV series)Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
- Nadia SantosNadia SantosNadia Santos is a fictional character in the television series Alias, and a main character during the series' fourth season. She is played by Mía Maestro.-Biography:...
, on the TV series Alias - Princess Nadia, a character in the SNES/PS1 game Chrono Trigger
- Nadia, in the anime TV series El Cazador de la BrujaEl Cazador de la Bruja, is an anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo and animated by Bee Train studio. It is a spiritual successor of Noir and Madlax and the final installment of Bee Train's "girls-with-guns" trilogy. The series was aired on TV Tokyo from April to September in 2007...
- Nadia, in the American Pie film series
- Nadia, a Russian mail order bride in the 2002 film Birthday GirlBirthday GirlBirthday Girl is a 2001 British-American drama and crime film directed by Jez Butterworth. The plot focuses on English bank clerk John Buckingham who orders a Russian mail-order bride, Nadia. It becomes clear upon her arrival that Nadia cannot speak English, and early into her stay, two mysterious...
- Nadia Chernyshevski, in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogyMars trilogyThe Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries...
- Nadia, in PandorumPandorumPandorum is a 2009 German-British science fiction thriller film written by Travis Milloy, directed by Christian Alvart and produced by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Filming began in Berlin in August 2008. Pandorum was released on September 25, 2009 in the United...
Other uses
- Nadia districtNadia DistrictNadia district is a district of the state of West Bengal, in the north east of India. It borders with Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Bardhaman district to the west, and Murshidabad district to the north....
, in the West Bengal state of India - Nadia (1984 film)Nadia (1984 film)Nadia is a 1984 made-for-television biopic of gymnast Nadia Comăneci. The film was directed by Alan Cooke.- Plot summary :Based on a true story about Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci. Nadia began training competitively at age six, after being discovered by world-famous coaches, Bela Karolyi and his...
, a made-for-television biopic of Nadia Comăneci - Nadia: The Secret of Blue WaterNadia: The Secret of Blue Wateris a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo...
, an anime by Gainax
See also
- Nadine (disambiguation)
- Nadezhda (disambiguation)
- Nadja (disambiguation)NadjaNadja may refer to:* Nadja , 1928 surrealist novel by André Breton* Nadja , 1994 vampire film by Michael Almereyda* Nadja , Canadian drone doom metal side project of Aidan Baker* Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violinist...
- Nadya
- Nadzieja
- Slavic names